Now that Share Everything has arrived Verizon is ending tablet subsidies

0.phoneArena03 Jul 2012, 18:14posted on

Verizon isn't going to make as much money off of tablet contracts now that it only costs $10 a month to add one to a shared data plan. As a result subsidized tablet pricing just went the way of the dodo...

what are you talking about? you can add tablet data for 10 bux. thats 240 for 2 years. where's the greed? I'm one of the first people to point out the premium price points for VZW and ATT, but really if your already a customer and want a tablet.. thats not bad.

How are they supposed to give you a $300 subsidy when they are only charging 240 a year?

whos greed? yours?

ALL subsidies should go away. It would make service close to half the cost that it is now... which is cheaper for everyone in the long run. Carriers make profit from day 1 instead of month 20 from subsidies, and we get much cheaper service which more than makes up for the phone costs.

You are correct that it's the line fee however, every plan now has shared data with all your devices so what they are saying is that you can have shared data with your phone, hotspot, tablet etc... every plan now gives you unl. talk and text with a bulk amount of data to share instead of paying for a data pla on each device. so instead of paying data fees of $50 for hotspot $30 for tablet and $30 for your smartphone on top of a minute plan its all shared now for a reduced cost.
Which is why no more subsidies for tablets.
has actually saved quite a few people money going this route.

I only have a data plan with Verizon and I pay $100 a year for unlimited Verizon to Verizon calls for only $1 a day on my prepaid plan. I an a data user, I rarely make calls or send texts on my cell phone.

The line fee would cost me a lot of money just to share data on the 5GB plan that I am currently doing for free.

The smoke and mirrors is you save money IF you bundle a lot of your services with Verizon.

people have been buying iPads unsubsidized since the beginning, so this is not much different than that. this is only new Android tablets w/cellular connectivity. this is an answered prayer for a lot of people.

I dont understand why people think this stuff is expensive in the US. $30 for 4 Gigs is more than resonable. Try living in CANADA (crap of a "country" really). Do you know what $50 + System access fee/ "Government regulatory recovery fee" + 13% taxes gets you?

250 Anytime minutes
Unlimited EVENINGs after 9pm
Unlimited texting* (seemingly unlimited, but they just pull your line after 2500 texts)
NO CALL DISPLAY (seriously, wtf is wrong with this place)
500Megs of data at turtling speeds and additional data is sold in KB!

The healthcare system in Canada is an illusion. Sure its free, but it is by no means good. Ever waited 16 hours at the ER to get a broken arm mended? What about 18 months for an MRI? 10 YEARS for a joint replacement?

What a coinkidink. I just so happen to of broke my left arm during my visit to my grandparents in toronto 2 years ago. I waited about 30-45 mins to be treated for it. The best part was I didnt come out oweing $200,000+ dollors. You must have the worst of luck for a 16 hour wait.

lol this is phone arena, not health care debate. I myself don't really know, but what I do know is many of my friends throughout the years that moved to Canada love there health care system, and say that was a a big factor in them staying. It is a system we need to adopt in this country though. Problem is, we don't want to pay for anything here. The words higher taxes is more evil than Satan here. lol

Your all B-s-ing. I lived in Alberta Calgary most of my life. your wait depends on both the seriousness of your injury, as well as the location withing your province, and is never 18 months down the line. But instead of me wasting time typing, I'll just post this article to educate you people.http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/february/10_myths_about_canad.php

The stupid thing about these share everything plans is that they aren't saving you any money. I pay about $100 for a smartphone with unlimited data and a basic phone on the cheapest family share plan they have and a tablet with 2gigs of data for $30. That's a total of $130 and after taxes and fees my bill is $150.

And guess what? If I were to switch to the share everything plan with 1gig of data I would be paying the same amount. You are NOT saving any money with these plans. Even if you go with the cheapest data plan available with 5 smartphones, you're not going to save much and those devices are going to gobble data like crazy so you'll have to get a bigger data plan since it's all shared.

The only people that benefit from these plans are those who talk and text non stop and don't have smartphones or tablets.

Untrue, I already did some rate plan analysis for some of my customers. One is a 3 line family all with iPhones, we are dropping them by $90/month by switching to the new plan. Another individual with Android will be dropping $20-$30/month once he decides which data plan he wants. There are exceptions, some single line plans will go up if they switch and some low level family share plans will pay extra if they switch. Its not a sweeping statement that you can make that its not better. The good news is existing customers don't have to switch, they can remain on their old plans and move up and down in minutes. Only new Verizon subscribers are required to take the new plans, all existing customers.... its optional.

It is optional for existing customers but you also have to add that it is only optional if you pay full price for a new phone or at least I'm pretty sure that is how they are doing it. I know it works that way for people who are (were) grandfathered into unlimited data.

I have unlimited data so I'm definitely going to be paying full price for phones from now on.

Untrue again. You may still upgrade, keep your existing minutes plan AND get discounted equipment. You would have to move to the $30/2GB, $50/5GB or $80/10GB data plan. You are only required to give up your unlimited data plan if you want discounted equipment, you do NOT have to move to Share Everything plans.

I dont have a problem with their tablet pricing and discontinuing tablet subsidies. Tablet subsidies haven't really proven to be successful in selling the devices, just like subsidies for laptops haven't been successful in comparison to just buying the device up front. Tablets aren't as essential as phones anyway, so it makes more sense to not be tied up to a contract on them.

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